Weekly meetings are held on Tuesday lunchtimes in D Block classrooms (D1, D2) or the staff commonroom when available.
If you'd like to be a part of Generation Earth, just come along to a meeting Tuesday lunch! There is no obligation to be at every meeting. You can still be a huge help even if you don't come regularly.
GE Meeting 3/11/09
Mobile Muster
- Remind friends to bring in phones
- All phones due in Friday
- Prize for honour roll is books and lollies
New Treasurers
- Logice, Sandra and Sophia
- Re-inbursements?
Movie Day/Period at school
- Age of Stupid (buy rights? Check up for application of rights?)
- Year 9s – ask Year Advisor about having a period/time for watching
Bottles
- Feb 12th 2010
- Britta will come with tent and bottles, signing of pledge, 3 bottles for a green bottle
- End of this year – tell school not to throw plastic bottles away
- Sculpture of tree for 2010 using the bottles
Gardening
- Christine Tse in charge
- Set Roster: so far…
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Logice and Alison(afternoon) |
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Year 9s (Lunch) |
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Year 9s Lunch |
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Angel, Vicky, Logice (morning) |
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Angel, Vicky, Logice (morning) |
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- Aboriginal Land Heritage sign – proposal? Addie/Jess
- Watering cans storage?
Worm Farm
- Workshop: this Thur lunch (under E Block stairs)
Copenhagen + Walk Against Warming
Copenhagen
- Green day on Fri Dec 11
- Mufti
- Snow cones? Copenhagen ice cream? Tracy to contact/organise
- Pedal Power Speakers? (hw; research really cool eco inventions)
- Eco fashion show? Video of op shops, Tracy to film
Walk against Warming
- Sat Dec 12, but at school: combine with Green Day on Dec 11
- Blue laces: to sell for whole week but snow cones or ice cream to sell at lunch
- Announcement: ‘ Dec 11. Green Day is coming to NSG. ’
Song Competition
- Song about global warming
- Video with first verse and then ask for the rest of song from school
Upcoming Holiday Meeting Details
What: A day of gardening, Mobile Monster making & preparation for upcoming projects (350, bottles, plastic sculpture)
When: 10am - 3pm Wednesday 14 October
Where: NSG
So I know the sound of going to school during the holidays makes you jump for joy, and I assure you will by the end of the day! It will be fun, and you'll feel warm inside knowing you've given up your free time to make a change in your world.
Check this page and your emails for more details soon!
GE Meeting 24/9/09
Joint meeting next Tues 29 Sep, 8-9.25am, NSG E6
Attending: Addie, Angela, Jess, Joey
HOLIDAY MEETING: to create mobile monster! to confirm details for events at beginning of term and for gardening group to plan! date to be confirmed
Sisters on the Planet
- screening next Tues 29 Sep, GYM during scripture
- Pris, Angel, Angela, Sophia to set up
- announcements and promotional material around school?
- free food?
Mobile Muster
- starting first week back, Tues 20 October
- Logice, Priscilla, Sai to make a Mobile Monster collection box during holidays
- assembly item Tues 20 Oct
Coles Plastic Bag Challenge
- entry needs to be in soon, another project for term 4?
350
- 350 logo to be created with people wearing blue shirts, Friday 23 Oct
- Pris, Tracey to draw outline in chalk on the quad during 3rd period
- assembly item Tues 20 Oct
Mt Franklin Project
- 350 bottles to make plastic tree sculpture (on top of a mountain?), or bottles stuck to real tree
- collect plastic bottles from school begnning of term 4
- announcements and/or assembly mention
Bottled Water
- leaders to talk to Ms McCrossin at NSB about refillable bottle giveaway
GE Meeting 8/9/09
1. Today we had a joint NSG NSB meeting for discussion of Youth Decide.
• Joint press release to be given to local newspapers and TV stations and letters to local MPs/
• Raffle? To encourage students to vote.
• Publicity events at NSB – Few of us to go to NSB this week to dance the flash mob dance.
2. YOUth Decide
- Video to be edited by Addie. Will be uploaded on Youtube.
Here’s the link to the uploaded raw version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN7ZZ73pFUg
- At least three people to set up in the quad while 5 pairs of roaming people move around the school carrying muffins and the laptop.
Tuesday
Christine Stephanie Tan
Jess Chen Angela G
Steph Zhu Priscilla
Sai Vicky
Jasmine Carman
Thursday
Angela Z Tracey Liang
Joey Sandra
Sally Elena
Theresa Tracey Li
Joanna Jia Ying
- Meet Tuesday morning at scripture to start allocating muffins and setting up the billboards, make sure the laptops are working.
- Trolley of laptops to be returned to the library during class.
- Money from the silver coin donations are to be left with Mr Jones during class and counted ten minutes before lunch ends.
- Press release – check out - http://www.youthdecide.com.au/Get-Involved/Hold-a--Local-Event-/DIY-Publicity.aspx
3. New Ideas
- Mobile Muster – old mobile phones to the Spastic Centre or Jasmine’s friends?
- Mt Franklin sculpture – NSB interested as well?
Collect empty bottles and make a mountain in the quad. Bottles recycled after use. Further discussion on the Wiki.
Joint Youth Decide Meeting
Confirmed details: Tuesday 8th Sep, 8.00-9.25am, NSG
NSG attending (total 9): Steph, Jess, Angela, Addie, Denise, Logice, Pris, Joey, Ariana
Combined NSG and NSB Youth Decide Meeting!
AGENDA –
1. Running of actual event
2. Promotion
3. Media attention and MPs
Actual Event
• Voting to take place next week Thursday and Friday for NSB.
Tuesday and Thursday for NSG
• Raffles to be organized for each grade as encouragement to vote. They can place it in the respective buckets and winner drawn at lunch time
• Chocolate fountain and fruit kebabs placed near the voting station
Promotion
• NSB to show video during science lessons next week?
• Some NSG’s to go to NSB to dance the flash mob dance on Thursday or Friday or the next Monday.
• Wallpapers to be changed at NSG (not allowed at NSB) to given wallpapers from the YD website
• Publicity stunt to be organized at NSB
Media
• Press release to be made from the template found here -http://www.youthdecide.com.au/Get-Involved/Hold-a--Local-Event-/DIY-Publicity.aspx
• Joe Hockey to be contacted
• Senator Christine Milne – letter telling her what we’re doing and thanks for her speech at Powershift
• TV Stations
• Local newspapers eg. Mosman Daily and North Shore Times.
Minutes
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Meeting 4 Term 3 - 1/9/09
Please join the WIKI site that NSBHS have been using. We are now basing all events and actions on that wiki so that all information is collected together.
- Make an wiki dot account
- Apply for the NSBHS wiki community. Ask for the password here: http://nsb-enviro.wikidot.com/forum/t-180033/joining-the-wiki and it will be PMed to you.
- Start posting!
1. Today Deepa Gupta class of 05 came to talk to us about her work in India and to encourage our school to participate in YOUthDecide. Great speech!
2. Update on Bottled Water
- Tracey called up the suppliers for coolchange and has discovered that the whole company is a hoax. Disappointing! But the guy will get back to her in a few days with another brand of bottled water that is biodegradable.
3. Update on YOUth Decide
- Video to be edited my Addie. Please pass on all clips to her ASAP. To be shown next Tuesday at assembly.
- Voting done on laptops; won’t be allowed to take them to each classroom. Instead people can come at lunch and recess.
4. New Ideas
- Plastic bag exchange like James Ruse Ag High. They offered a cloth bag in exchange for 10 plastic bags. To be discussed on Wiki
- Mt Franklin demonstration for Mr Jones.
Collect empty bottles and make a mountain in the quad. Bottles recycled after use. Further discussion on the Wiki.
Our treasurer is Sophia Hardy!
Meeting 3 Term 3 - 18/8/09
- Most importantly a new Wiki will be set up quite like the one they have over at NSB. Here's the link.
http://nsb-enviro.wikidot.com/start
Please go check it out and we'll start making one soon.
- Youth Decide
Is coming up soon on th 14th to 21st of September.
We're planning a speaker to come in one assembly to talk for us.
Flash mob dance rehearsals on this Friday lunchtime. There will be an announcement made to remind everyone. Please tell your friends to come and if they're interested in joining please forward them this email so they can email back and join the contact list.
The actual dance will be on Next Wednesday at lunch. Lily and Addie to film the event and post on youtube. Gen Earth youtube account to be made. :]
We'll aim to have a video presentation on next Tuesday about Powershift and a speaker the week after.
- 350
International Day of Climate Action 24th. We're holding it on the 23rd.
Planning a whole week of events. Take a picture of a huge 350 made by everyone on the Friday maybe.
Other projects im not sure about. Once we have a wiki we can have detailed updates from all the group leaders. :]
I think gardening is making a composting roster. So you empty special compost bins into the worm farm? You can sign up by talking to Ms Lamble or Angela.
Meeting 1 Term 3 – 4/8/09
New year of Powershifting! Jie and Jen our old leaders have their hands full with year 12 stuff. Good Luck! Welcome to newcomers!
New System
- Project groups that have their designated leaders to run the specific project.
- Roles to be assigned to people that project leaders can get help with.
1. Publicity officer
2. Liaison officer
3. Logistics (materials)
4. Moodle/Forum monitor
5. Fundraising
- Wk A small project meetings
- Wk B big group meetings.
Gardening – Angela Z
- 5 year tens had a session with Ms Lamble to discuss the direction of regenerating the gardens.
- Job to plan out and plant proposed to be given to the Year 7s. Garden Regeneration Committee to sort out.
Youth Decide – Jess X and Steph Z
- More info will be uploaded onto the website on Monday.
- Date in September sometime.
350 – Addie L and Sophia H
- International Day of Climate Action October 24th.
- Brainstorm possible events.
- Big 350 made with people ideally.
Bottled Water – Denise H and Sai K
- Either replace plastic bottles available in the canteen with these bottles that are biodegradable made from plants, or have a water filter available in the canteen to refill bottles for 10c each.
- Try and get Brita mygreenbottle people to give away bottles for signing their pledge.
- Thinking of showing the school how it biodegrades in 80 days in them middle of the quad.
- Bottled water costs more than oil!
Generation Technology
- Moodle or a forum or a blog to be set up so that the school gets to know what is happening with Generation Earth.
Minutes 19/05/09
1. NS Council Grant
- Received!!
- Gardening day to be scheduled, Friday? Last day of term? During school?
2. Powershift
- 11 people so far in the join up list. Goal of around thirty.
- Counts for DOE service?
- Money cant be taken from our account which has $500 for solar panels and water tanks.
- Next Friday is World Environment Day, but also Career’s Day. http://www.unep.org/wed/2009/english/content/register.asp
- Bake sale - $115.10 raised!!
- Mufti day to be determined.
- Next Tuesday is charities day meeting, people to go around telling people about powershift.
3. SEMP
- To be written by Ms Lamble, once a temporary replacement teacher is found.
4. Enviro Enspiro
- 2 part project, gardening and powershift.
- Due in 3rd of July. DVD of up to 5 minutes.
- Everything must be documented then edited into a short film. Format to be chosen.
Minutes 6/5/09
1. Powershift
- Posters have been put up around the school. A short video will be shown at assembly
- Powershift High School Training Day coming Saturday 9th of May at Macquarie Uni, from nine to four. RSVP Jade asap.
- A speaker to promote the week after the video is shown.
2. Publicity
- Video with “shifty” concept. :]
3. Liaison
- Adeline to contact NSB climate group coordinator Fiona.
- Mosman?
4. NS Council Grants
- No word yet of the grants, so the native plants project will be postponed.
- Ask the gardening club if they’re interested.
5. Enviro Inspiro
- http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/events/statecompetitions/enviro_inspiro/index.php
- Film due back on the 3rd of July, based on a student run project
5. Worm Farm
- Angela to ask Miss Cheney the process of maintaining a worm farm.
- Roster to be made and posters to advertise.
- Someone to ask Ms Foley’s gardening club and senior biology classes if they need the fertilizer and if they want to help.
Minutes 17/03/09
1. Finalized Events
- Jellybean guessing competition. The number will be based on a statistic.
- A quiz on moodle for students to complete
- “I Do…” Poster where students will place stickers on the statements they do at home to combat climate change.
2. Fairybread
- Angela to bring butter and five trays and hundreds thousands
- Michelle to bring bread and butter
- Angel to bring cups (why do we need cups?)
- Shirley? To bring butter
- Sonia to ask Ms Ashelle if we can borrow a few trays
- Denise to bring butter
- Everyone bring tea towels
- Price – silver coin donation
- Meeting Thursday 7:45 in the staff commonroom
3. Quiz
- 10 questions to be posted on Moodle (Thanks Ms Lamble)
- Log in, general page, scroll down to students, then click on Generation Earth
- Collective quiz results will be announced at assembly 24th. Winner will given the five dollars we found on Clean Up NSG day.
- Sai and Denise to mind the stall on Thursday.
- Thanks to Michelle Seeto and Garnet Chan in 7B for their laptops.
- First 50 students to enter the quiz get a jellybean?
- Poster to be made of how to get to the quiz – Jess X
4. “I Do…” Poster
- Stickers – Ms Lamble, Cardboard – Stephanie Z
- Big stickers for “I do this a lot”, Small sticker for “I do this sometimes”
- Statistics to be read out at assembly
5.Jellybean Guessing Competition
- Amy to count the number of jellybeans needed second period.
- Jar needed. Preferably glass, see through.
- Silver coin donation to enter?
6. SEMP
- Addie will look through the website and if needed ask the NSBs for help lol.
Minutes 24/02/09
1. Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday
- Publicity team to make announcements and daily notices.
- Clean up Australia day locations?
2. Clean Up NSG Day on Friday
- Everyone to bring gardening gloves.
- People to bring plastic bags are bolded
- If you need to exchange bags and such meet at halftime in the staff common room.
- Ms Lamble to ask other teachers
Senior Lawn - Phyllis, Jane and Jenny
Quad - Annie, Nicky, Henna, Joanna and Christine
Courts - Ariana and Joey
Fenced area – Front Steph, Jess X, Jennifer and Ashita
Fenced area – Back Angel, Denise, Angela and Vicky
Gym and Amphitheatre - Vivian, Lina, and Sai
Green - Tracey, Addie and Lily
3. Research
- Whether or not flat paper can be recycled.
Minutes 10/02/09
Info Day is this Friday, 13th during lunch in the gym
o Jess & Xtine are making the flyers, which will be a double sided strip of paper including the logo, info about Generation Earth, meeting times, facts and stuff about our facebook group
o The Sign Up Sheet will be made my Sally
Roster for the stall:
Stall Walking around
1st Half of Lunch Emily & Rachel Steph, Joey, Xtine Tse
2nd Half of Lunch Amy & Eva Denise, Vicky, Xtine Wu
New Banner
o Everybody bring in any colourful leftover materials or old pieces of clothing, and put these in the box which will be outside A3, for our new banner
o Angela bring in the calico
o Anyone who is available after school on Wednesday or Thursday can help make the new banner. (So far there are approx. 7 people available on Wed. and 6 on Thurs.)
Power Shift
o July, during the holidays, 9am – 5pm
o Registrations open end of February
o Tim Flannery is coming to talk
o Cat Empire
o Malcolm Turnball
Publicity Committee:
o There is a meeting on Thursday at lunch
o Assembly Item
o Note to Jess: make Facebook public so Jade and everyone can access it. Remember to put in your cool/scary/interesting facts, everybody!
Fundraising Committee:
o Organise a meeting
o Fundraising for Power Shift – bake sale?
Charities
o Jade will be writing a bit for the charities pamphlet to talk about and promote generation earth
Next Week: SEMP
Generation Earth!! 3/02/09
Powershift -
· Talk to NSB to get more people to join.
· Venue in Sydney and dates to be finalised
· Advertising?
Positions –
All these jobs are just general descriptions and everyone will help each other out.
· Publicity – To deal with promoting events and awareness within the school
· Research – Finding information on events, products, surveying and other cool info!
· Liaison – Representing Gen Earth as a group with the government, school council,
· Fundraising (events) – Organising fundraisers for our accounts and planning events.
| Publicity |
Research |
Liaison |
Fundraising |
| Alice Zhu |
Agatha Lossy |
Adeline Lee |
Amy Wang |
| Christine Wu |
Angela Zhang |
Dorothy Xiao |
Emily Law |
| Jennifer Rah |
Christine Tse |
Eva Cheng |
Ishita Mehrota |
| Jessica Xu |
Denise Hsueh |
Jie Feng |
Louisa Xu |
| Joanne Chau |
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Rachel Chang |
| Sally Qin |
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Sai Kumaravel |
| Stephanie Zhu |
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Victoria Rong |
Publicity –
· Assembly skit for our new recycling bins. Satire? Publicity team to get together and work out a script some time before next meeting?
· Facebook page for everyone to join and contribute. Jess X to make the page. JOIN and TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!! :]
· Advertising of Powershift. Think of ideas to promote and entice!
Research –
· Bicycle with speakers. Funky ways of promoting our group and cause.
· Everyone to find a fact or two to share. Will be used to SCARE students into action.
· SEMP – visit website. http://www.sustainableschools.nsw.edu.au/
Liaison –
· Talk to Peter? About solar panels and water tanks
